Spring 2024

January

• January 18, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Anne Friesacher/Nicolas Kurtenbach (MPE)
  Background Uncertainty, Beliefs and Social Behaviour
• January 25, 12:00 – 13:00, room E0.04
  Giuseppe Musillo (Tilburg University)
  It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance

February

• February 1, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Pedro Gonzalez (MPE)
  Belief Bias Identification
• February 8, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
  Eva Markowsky (University of Hamburg)
  Gender and performance under competitive pressure: A meta-analysis of experimental studies
• February 22, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Max Grossmann (University of Cologne)
  Paternalism and Deliberation
• February 29, 12:00-13:00, room H0.06
  Aleksandr Alekseev (University of Regensburg)
  The Economics of Babysitting a Robot

March

• Marco De Carlo (IMT Luca)
  Vocal minorities in social media
• March 21, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  Jason Sockin (IZA Berlin)
  We’ve Got You Covered:
  Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson

April

• April 11, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
  Max Thon (University of Cologne)
  How to increase diversity? Field-experimental evidence on emphasizing flexibility and pay in job advertisements
• April 18, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  Riya Sa (Tilburg University)
  Text architecture: how does the partitioned response format affect what consumers say?
• April 25, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Paul Grass (University of Bonn)
  Sticky Models

May

•  May 2, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Till Wicker (Tilburg University)
  Helping Cash Transfer Recipients Prosper: Experimental Evidence from a Humanitarian Setting
• May 16, 12:00-13.00, room A0.24 POSTPONED
  James Wilkinson (FPN)
  Eliciting time and effort preferences
• May 23, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
  Yi Sheng (Tilburg University)
  Other-regarding ethnic discrimination
• May 30, 12:00-13.00, room C-1.03
  Carla Colossi (Utrecht University)
  Does the end justify the measure? Contraceptive choice and performance-based financing in family planning

June

• June 5 (WED), 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
  Tingting Ding (James Madison University)
  Should Birds of a Feather Learn Together? An Experimental Study on How Group Composition Affects Social Learning.
• June 20, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Muhammed Bulutay (TU Berlin)
  Better than Perceived? Correcting Misperceptions about Central Bank Inflation Forecasts
• June 27, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. CANCELLED
  Shuzhen Li (Utrecht University)
  Beyond returns: Probing the resilience of sustainability preferences

Fall 2023

September

• September 7, 13:30-14:30, room C-1.05
  Milan Van Steenvoort (MPE)
  Exposure to refugees and electoral outcomes
• September 14, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 TO BE RESCHEDULED
  Charlotte Kroll (MPE/FPN)
  Oxytocin & Prosociality
• September 21, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Ozge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
  Do All Women Shy Away from Competition? Competitive Preferences Among different ethnic groups in the Netherlands
• September 28, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Ruth van Holst (Amsterdam UMC)
  Risky Choices, Lost Bets: Reward Processing and Decision Making in Gambling Disorder
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October

• October 5, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Karlijn Hoyer (Amsterdam University)
  Greed and Trading Behavior in Experimental Asset Markets
• October 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Anna Schulze Tilling (University of Bonn)
  Changing consumption behavior with carbon labels: Causal evidence on behavioral channels and effectiveness
• October 19, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  Steve Heinke (Universität Basel)
  Avoiding bad risks: How risk aversion is beneficial for financial decision-making
• October 26, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
  Te Bao (Nanyang Technological University
  Cognitive Uncertainty, GPT, and Contribution in Public Goods Game

November

• November 9, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  Peiran Jiao (Finance)
  Norms make investors socially responsible
  November 16, 12:00-13:00, room F0.05
• James Wilkinson (FPN)
  Eliciting time and effort preferences
• November 23, 12:00-13:00, room G1.11
  Charlotte Kroll (MPE & FPN)
  Oxytocin, individual differences, and trust game behavior: a registered large-scale replication
• November 30, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  David Albrecht (MPE)
  Mitigating manipulation in expert committees:
  Just let them talk!

December

• December 7, 13:15-14:15, room A0.24
  Lars Wittrock (MPE)
  Optimal Memory with Sequential Learning: Signals or Posterior Beliefs
• December 14, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.05
  Anna Hager (University of Bielefeld)
  t.b.a

Spring 2023

January

• January 12, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Lydia Hofmann (Master Student FPN)Modafinil:
  Cognitive and Patience Enhancer? The Influence of Modafinil on Cognitive
  Ability and Time Preference
• January 19, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Kaiqi Liu (MPE)
  Dynamic portfolio choice for loss-averse investors: a simulation method with wealth grid

February

• February 2, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Lars Wittrock (MPE)
  Belief updating and misinformation
  February 9, 14:00-15:00, room A1.22
  King King Li (Shenzhen University)
  The Hidden Costs of Choice in the Labor Market
  February 16, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Hannes Rusch (MPE)
  Success and failure of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
  February 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Paul Bokern (MPE)
  The Convergent and External Validity of Risk Preference Elicitation Methods: Controlling for Measurement Error in a Large Dutch Sample

March

• March 2, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Yoni Slater (FPN, Section Forensic Psychology)
  Between self-interest and social preferences – A neuromodulation approach to establish the role of cognitive-control
• March 9, 12:00-13:00, room E3.04 & Zoom
  Eliza Stenzhorn (University of Bremen)
  Lock-in effects in online labor markets
• March 16, 12:00-13:00, ONLINE
  Ioannis Evangelidis (ESADE Business School (Barcelona))
  When Willingness-to-Pay Seems Irrational: The Role of Perceived Market Price
• March 23, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Jona Linde (MPE)
  Freeriding in teams in the lab and in the field
• March 30, 12:00-13:00, room A1.22
  Andreas Ziegler (University of Amsterdam & the Tinbergen Institute)
  Persuading an audience: Testing information design in the laboratory

April

• April 6, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
  Hannes Rusch (MPE)
  Groupiness in the field II – First results
• April 20, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Yi Sheng (Tilburg University)
  Help to signal

May

• May 4, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Nicolas Kurtenbach (MPE)
  When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire
• May 11, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24
  Nathalie Roemer (Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Economic Policy)
  Breaking the Bias: The Effect of Self-Promotion on Gender Equality in the Workplace
• May 25, 12:00-13:00, room A1.23
  Sören Harrs (University of Cologne)
  Fairness and Political Preferences

June

• June 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 POSTPONED
  Matthias Wibral (MPE)
  When you try your best but you don’t succeed: Nudges in retirement saving may backfire
• June 8, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. POSTPONED
  Daylín Góngora (MPE)
  t.b.a.
• June 15, 12:00-13:00, room t.b.a. POSTPONED
  Devrim Dumludag (Marmara University) & Özge Gökdemir (Istanbul University)
  t.b.a.
• June 22, 12:00-13:00, room G1.01
  Oda Sund (University of Amsterdam)
  Randomness or a higher power? –How religion relates to inequality acceptance

Fall 2022

September

• September 1, 12:00-13:00, room A0.24 & Zoom
  David Albrecht (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  The Debt Aversion Survey Module
• September 8, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & Zoom
  Arno Riedl (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Global Competition Favors Cooperative Strategies in Indirect Reciprocal Interactions
• September 15, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Jenna Barrett (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management)
  The correspondence between objective and subjective financial well-being: Evidence from a nationally representative sample
• September 22, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23 & Zoom
  Leticia Micheli (University of Würzburg) & Bruno Martorano (UNU-MERIT)
  The impact of information about inequality on students’ educational aspirations
• September 28 (WEDNESDAY), 13:00-14:00, H0.06 & Zoom
  Frauke Stehr (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Dodging high impact behavior with motivated beliefs

October

• October 6, 12:00-13:00, room C-1.03
  Lidingrong Huang (Department of Finance)
  Customers Reciprocate
• October 13, 12:00-13:00, room A0.23
  Milan Van Steenvoort (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Does a gender-biased stopping rule really decrease fertility?
• October 20, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
  Hannes Rusch & Peter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Open Science

November

• November 3, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
  Martin Strobel (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Measuring Betrayal Aversion
• November 10, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
  Michal Bodický (MPE)
  Human decision-making in chess: An evaluation by computer analysis
• November 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
  Thomas Post (Department of Finance)
  Cognitive constraints, planned savings and downstream economic behaviors
• November 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24
  James Wilkinson & Tobias Otto
  Cognitive fatigue and effort-based decision-making

December

• December 7 (WEDNESDAY), 12:00-13:00, A0.23
  Giannis Lois (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  The role of social identity in updating factual beliefs: identity-based discounting or biased prior impressions?
• December 15, 12:00-13:00, A0.23
  Lina M. Lozano (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  Attribution of failure and success in strategic settings

Spring 2022

January

• January 27, 12:00-13:00, ZoomElias Tsakas (MPE)
  Identification of misreported beliefs

February

• February 3, 12:00-13:00, ZoomXinxin Zhu (Department of Finance)
  How does financial education influence investor portfolio allocation? An experimental analysis
• February 10, 12:00-13:00, TAP11 D0.014 & ZoomLars Wittrock (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Belief Updating and Misinformation
• February 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPaul Bokern (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  The nature of risk attitudes – Evidence from a large population sample
• February 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomAdriana Iamnitchi (Institute of Data Science)
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Media

March

• March 3, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & ZoomPeter Werner (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  On common evaluation standards and the acceptance of wage inequality
• March 10, 12:00-13:00, ZoomAnne Friesacher (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Examining the relationship between acute stress and social preferences
• March 17, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomDiogo Geraldes (Utrecht University)
  Women Dislike Competing Against Men
• March 24, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomChristoph Semken (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  The Marginal Impact of Emission Reductions
• March 31, 12:00-13:00, A1.23 & ZoomAnouk Festjens (Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management )
  The effect of financial constraints on economic decision-making

April

• April 7, 12:00-13:00, G1.01 & ZoomEveline Vandewal (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Strategic Reasoning
• April 21, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomHannes Rusch (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Groupiness in the field – Intermediate results
• April 28, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & ZoomJames Tremewan
  Reasoning and persuasion in social dilemmas

May

• May 12, 12:00-13:00, A0.23 & ZoomPaul Smeets (Department of Finance)
  Are investors willing to pay for sustainable investments?
• May 19, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPeiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
  Dynamic inconsistency in risky investment decisions

June

• June 2, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomKatlijn Haesebrouck (Department of Accounting and Information Management)
  Motivating Effortful Information Acquisition and Honest Reporting: The Effect of Input, Output, and Hybrid Control
• June 9, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomStefan Flagner (Department of Finance (SBE) & Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences (FHML))
  The impact of indoor carbon dioxide on human cognition and health
• June 16, 12:00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomMax Löffler (Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics)
  Welfare Effects of Property Taxation
• June 23, 12.00-13:00, A0.24 & ZoomPeiran Jiao (Department of Finance)
  Taste, Asymmetric Updating, and Valuation

Fall 2021

September

• September 16, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Alexander Vostroknutov (MPE)
  Affective Decision Making
• September 23, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Pedro González Fernández (MPE)
  Individual Heterogeneity in Probabilistic Judgement and the Role of Ownership
• September 30, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Marvin Gleue (University of Münster/Ruhr University Bochum)
  Moral Balancing in Sustainable Behavior

November

• November 4, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Christopher Kops (KE)
  Testing Negative Value of Information and Ambiguity Aversion
• November 11, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Bin Dong (Finance)
  Belief, Ambiguity Perception, and Norm following – Meesman Project
• November 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Pol Herrero Castillo
  Are you sure? Heuristics & Biases and COVID-19
• November 23 (WEDNESDAY), 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Nickolas Gagnon (Aarhus University)
  Ideals and Norms of Discrimination

Spring 2021

February

• February 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Frauke Stehr (MPE)
  Dodging High Impact Behavior with Motivated Beliefs
• February 25, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Jenna Barrett (MSCM)
  Experience sampling for promoting pension savings

March

• March 11, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  David Albrecht (MPE)
  Collective intelligence despite hidden agendas: Antidotes to manipulation in small group forecasting
• March 18, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Oda Kristine Storstad Sund (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
  Unleveling the playing-field? Parents’ willingness to give their child an advantage
  March 25, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Eveline Vandewal (MPE)
  Reciprocity and information search in the prisoner’s dilemma game

April

• April 8, 12:30-13:30, Zoom
  Giannis Lois (MPE)
  Prospects of upward mobility or political inequality: Antecedents of the persistent economic inequality

May

• May 20, 12:30-13:30
  Peter Werner (MPE)
  The value of honest feedback
• May 27, 12:30-13:30
  Caroline Goukens (MW)
  The Zero Price Effect(s). Why offering something for free can act as a double-edge sword

June

• June 3, 12:30-13:30
  Matthias Wibral (MPE)
• June 17, 12:30-13:30
  Eveline Vandewal (MPE)
  Social Preferences and Information Search in Strategic Games: An Online Experiment
• June 24, 12:30-13:30
  Paul Smeets (Finance)
  Investor Memory
• Aline Dantas (MSCM & FPN)
  A gut feeling: How your gut and brain determine your choices

July

• July 1, 11:30 – 12:30
  Peter Werner (MPE)
  The impact of co-benefits on voluntary climate change mitigation